Blog Highlights

The Roadside MBA team is partnering with Stanford GSB to offer our first MOOC! After years globe-trotting, book-writing, and trying out new course material on unsuspecting MBA students, we’ve picked the best ideas from the Roadside MBA canon and packaged them together in a free, online course. During the course, we’ll ask you to think about questions […]

The Roadside MBA Multimedia Project has been nominated for an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, San Francisco/Northern California Chapter. See the press release here! We are nominated in the “Informational/Instructional-Program/Special” Category. The other nominee is a fun piece on the one-year anniversary of San Francisco’s new Exploratorium from […]

We just found out that the Roadside MBA Multimedia Project — Big Lessons from America’s Small Businesses — won “gold” in the News & Research Video category of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Western district awards. We beat out Cal and the UC system. A hearty congratulations to everyone at Stanford […]

Scott Schaefer’s blog post on Roadside MBA ran on the Harvard Business Review web site last week. A small excerpt: What happens when you put three business professors in a rental car and send them out to talk to owners and managers of small- and medium-sized businesses? Would they discover their MBA frameworks to be […]

We have interviewed 100+ small businesses in the last few years, but only had space for maybe 45 in our book. What to do with the great stories, insights, and “It Depends” examples from the other 55+? Our friends at Inc.com have been kind enough to bring us on as columnists, and we’re pleased to […]

Mike Mazzeo and Scott Schaefer enjoyed chatting with hosts Anthony Mason and Vinita Nair (Northwestern alum!) on CBS This Morning last Saturday. Big fun in the Big Apple, and you can catch the video here.

Roadside MBA got a (mostly) nice review in The Economist this week. Here’s a snip: The book… succeeds admirably in its main aim, providing fresh examples to illustrate the basic tenets of MBA theory. In doing so it cleverly addresses two different markets: MBA students who want fresh grist to their mills and roadside businesspeople […]

Roadside MBA will be back on the road June 12 through 16! We’ll hit two countries, two states, two provinces (and our windshield will probably hit many thousands of bugs!) Yes, we’re flying to our neighbor to the north, starting our trip in Thunder Bay, Ontario. From there, we’ll hit Duluth, Minnesota, Grand Forks, […]

The Roadside MBA team has been enjoying presenting our MOOC Strategic Thinking for Growing Your Enterprise this month! In our live sessions, we’ve been hosting interviews with growing businesses from around the world, and we’ve also started a new feature: Controversy of the Week! In this segment, we try to kick up some controversy by […]